Natural history Quote by Bruce Hampton

“For centuries the wolf was North America's beast, an animal transmogrified into a mythic and blood-lustful killer, pursued by every conceivable means, reviled with…

— Bruce Hampton

“Or will man have exterminated the wolf as a final demonstration of his 'conquest' of the wilderness and of wild things that dare compete…

— Douglas H. Pimlott

“As healthy and viable populations of wild animals, wolves were gone from most of eastern North America long before the death of the last…

— Bruce Hampton

“In the words of Yellowstone Park's wolf biologist Michael Phillips, wolf conservation has become "a dramatic expression of the goodness of the human spirit.…

— Bruce Hampton

“The wolf is regarded by many North-American scientists like Coppinger (2003) or Peterson (1995) as an "indicator species" for intact wilderness. In Europe however,…

— Günther Bloch

The wolf is living for the earth.

— Ted Hughes

We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap and poison,…

— Aldo Leopold

“I believe we need wilderness in order to be more complete human beings, to not be fearful of the animals that we are, an…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Writing this book afforded me the opportunity to find out and to honor these creatures in stories and in science. I’m grateful to all…

— Cristina Eisenberg

“Wolves, declared the document, like all other wildlife "have a right to exist in a wild state," one that "derives from the right of…

— Bruce Hampton

There is a wolf in me... - I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let…

— Carl Sandburg

“[Wild animals], and the beautiful landscapes that sustain them...possess a value and a virtue regardless of our dwindling connection with them. It seems that…

— Rick Bass